thismorning (wednesday 1st), 7.41-7.42am, and 8.21-8.23am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by nickrobinson and justin webb) includes …

“This is a book that alleges ‘an internatioal conspiracy of Jewish financiers’ …

He describes business as being ‘controlled by men of a single and peculiar race’.”

“The Telegraph reports that Jeremy Corbyn is embroiled in another row about anti-semitism after he’s found to have endorsed a book written in 1902, which argued that Europe’s banks and newspapers were controlled by Jews. It says that four years before he become Labour leader, he wrote a foreword to a new edition of J A Hobson’s Imperialism, A Study, which was written in 1902, in which he described the book as ‘brilliant and a great tome’. … anti-semitism in Hobson’s writings has been widely covered in historical circles. The paper notes that Labour has admitted that the text has anti-semitic elements …”

“Daniel Finkelstein’s piece in The Times tomorrow: this raises the spectre of anti-semitism within Labour, particularly pointing at Jeremy Corbyn, and the title is ‘Corbyn’s praise for deeply anti-semitic book’.”